Petite Cache Traditional Cache
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In 1803 to 1812 French prisoners of war were brought to Leek where they intergrated into the town's community. several of them are buried in the town and the area around St. Edward's church is named after them...Petite France.In 1996 The Baron Gourgaud came from France to unveil a monument to them in the churchyard.If you look near the Saxon cross you will see the grave of a little girl aged 4 who died in 1810, the daughter of Francois Neau.
LEEK
Listen… the corporal-chested cock, crowing on Morridge Edge,
The sound stumbling down the hushed hills
Past the winking, gothic rocks
To the slumbering town, and echoes through tiny Deansgate,
Yaps down Dog Lane and chases into Sheepmarket,
Through soulless, houseless, streetless
St. Georges Street and tiny little cobbleways,
You can smell the dawn-day air…
Scented savoury with early-morning pies, oatcakes from the old shop,
Last night’s beer from the two Swans and three Lions
Floating fragrant over Lowry scenes of mills and terraced streets
And out over the misty, green-weedy waters
Of the Churnet where salmon slip slowly by
And seagulls and crows play draughts in the sky.
The town is gently sleeping as the timid sun spreads softly over Buttermarket and the Buttercrossed, Candelabrumed, cobbled Market Square
That once rang with Bonnie hooves,
Goldening the ‘I’m better than thou’ Tudor chimneys,
The fairy-tale castle of the police station,
And the stony spires and copper dome of our little town.
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